Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It

The outcome of having a dense network is insidious but powerful. It means only the narratives which can go viral do go viral. The collective epistemic commons becomes filled with those narratives which outcompete the others and muscle their way to the top. It means that at a time of unprecedented low unemployment, high wages, high standard of livin

the Internet was supposed to educate and inform us, but instead it has created a society-wide poverty of attention.*